After researching the Naden Harbor carcass, I decided to draw a more accurate Cadborosaurus without a mane. I think that the "humps" or "notches" and the mane may be male features.

Also, someone has coined the name Cadborotherium, seeing as Caddy is not a reptile, but most probably either archeocete or seal. The Caddy is part of the "Merhorse" category, which can also contain swimming moose or horses, and the Longneck may be a separate variety of "equine seal".

I just uploaded a couple of old crypto scans, if you're interested:[link][link]I can't even remember the title of the book these were from, it was an OLLLLD library book. Probably pretty obvious that these two incidental illusrations had a huge impact on my sense of creature design. By far my favorite take on Whitey!

Also, it makes me wonder if long-necked sea monsters actually DID have horns and not stupid unlikely breathing snorkels. 4 horned sightings would be 2 horns plus two ears, one horned sightings I guess could be teratological, or a subspecies.

Whitey is SUPPOSED TO be a river monster, the White River Monster (Newport, Arkansas):[link]I've always had a fascination with the White River Monster, despite the fact that he's almost certainly a misidentified pinniped of some sort. I think it's the sketchy reports of a horned forehead; that just struck me as such an exotic and aberrant trait, and sent me on flights of fancy about what it might be, or might be derived from, in natural histor-ical terms. The "ridged back" helps in that regard (i.e. further confuses things!) as well, though the "sail" is probably a misinterpretation of protruding vertebrae.

That's an interesting point on the horns! I could totally see it...The teratology of the one-horned sightings I'm more skeptical about; it seems unlikely that one would observe non-standard traits in creatures so infrequently seen. On the other hand, ([link])! --And re: subspecies--yeah, totally! Or perhaps even sexual dimorphism.

I think Caddy is a creature that could very well exist, as Darren Naish mentioned in his article, as some sort of long-necked pinniped. As with most of the creatures of the 'Merhorse' category. They're among the only cryptids that don't really resemble already-known or prehistoric creatures, I believe that they are out there sincerely.

And Cadborotherium, that doesn't exactly have the same ring as CadboroSAURUS. Basilosaurus had the same situation.